Chronicling Hoosier: Tracing Home in Historic Newspapers

As part of the Indianapolis Spirit and Place Festival 2016, Chronicling Hoosier will provide avid “Hoosier” hunters, burgeoning genealogists, and the just plain curious equal delight in discovering the power of digital historic newspapers. Big data from historic sources transforms into compelling visualizations that provide new insights into our State’s long-fascination with the origin of the word Hoosier. Focusing on newspapers dating back to 1836, tactics will be taught that every Hoosier can use to search free, digital newspapers from the comfort of their own homes, embarking on their own discoveries of self, family, and community.Lilly Endowment Allen Whitehill Clowes Charitable Foundation Bohlsen Group The Polis Center at IUPUI WFYI Public Media 12 Stars Media Indiana State Library CICF Library Fund IUPUI University Library Indiana Historical Burea